English Standard Version

Isaiah 50:1-3 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. Thus says the Lord:“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce,with which I sent her away?Or which of my creditors is itto whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

2. Why, when I came, was there no man;why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of waterand die of thirst.

3. I clothe the heavens with blacknessand make sackcloth their covering.”